The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-11-18

! Stopping, and you are accustomed TO wind e
/ In il at night, just change around and
| wind it in the morning. and In two cases out
Of three this will put an end to your trouble.
! When YOU wind your watch In the morn
ing the spring is frightened and Is not SO apt
10 suffer from changes in position. II you
wind it at night. then In the morning the
spring Is loosened aud as you shift your
position It may be misplaced and the watch
may stop. At any rate. the bes. way IL to
wind your watch In the morning. Just
recollect this, and when the O'Clock bell
Is rung wind your watch. A good deal
depends upon the regularity with which il
Is wound"
"A Georgia papers offers a good sugges-
| ton for farmers. or anybody else who make
q practice OF runaing long accounts al
stores A party wished to purchase Sc
worth OF goods, but he did not have the
money TO pay down, and wanted In some
way TO get 10 per cent. discount offered to
those who did pay cash. So re accepted the
merchants advice to borrow $50 for three
months. Paying his interest In advance (1O
per cehr. fer three months, 81 25) had t4s 75
to trade with. Buying $50 worth OF goods
and paying cash. he got 10 per cent. OF and
paid for his goods s45 having s. IS lett
The merchant got his cash, the man who
loaned the money got his Interest, the farm.
er cot his goods cheap and had M hey left
and all hsnds were happier than they
would have been had the goods been sold
on tune. 1t pays 10 deal or . cash basis
Francis Joseph. Emperor OF Austris
owns more than 5000 horses. distributed
through the stables attached to his variou.
palaces IN town and country. In the Wen
ma stables there are nov a50Ht 44o horses,
attended by 200 stablemen and grOoms and
guarded by . regiment OF infantry. The
hortrs are all picked and all young. Over
each stall Is the name, pedigree and the
year in which foaled. and saw none that
were over When they pet past that age
they are considered No longer ft for the
Emperor's use, but could not discover
whether they are sold or given away.
Never less than eight horses are put to the
great coaches on State occasions, nor Iass
thai iOur for the smaller csrTiazes To
very few OF tke coaches 10 there a drivers
seat. as positions In the most gorgeous and
elaborate livery are put upon the horses.
C. w. Drum, OF San Francisco, who is
- years old, and white haired and white
bearded. has Just returned from New Next
co and Western Texas, where be spent the
sumner collecting insects. He collected B.
900, and will sell them to collectors, colleges
and schools. He has been hantInR bugs
since 1884, and has had some quesr adven-
tur's- he thus describes q couple !:
IT vice l escaped from the Apsches mira
culously. / was catching insects one day in
q little brush patch in the Ration Mountains.
had just risen up when l So " q big Indian
looking down into my net. He strobe away
That Lilht four wood choppers half a mile
AWAY from me wero killed. One day
went up on top OF high knoll In the West
stone Mountains, where there Was = spring,
70 get drink. Brush surrounded 1t, aud
when stepped on the edge OF the spring
saw five Indians sitting there. / couldn't
back out. so l asked for their tin cup. drank
and came way. They killed four or hye
whites near at hand. but didn't bother ms
They took me for some sort OF g medicine
man, with my nets for insect catching. and
on account OF my white hair and beard, and
that's why escaped
Nicholas Fleming, the veteran hunter.
OF Nicholas county. w. Va. has killed nine
bears thus far hhis season. but the last one
came very near finishing him He was fol-
lowing = trail with his dogs when he sud-
denly came face 10 face with a remarkably
large bear. The hunter hadn't time to level
his gun before the bear was upon him. lie
gave Fleming = blow with one Of his paws
which knocked him fiat, and before he could
get upon his feet or draw bis hunting knife
beast was iudustrinusly chewing his right
leg, while his forepaws, armed with claws
three inches long. were tearing his clothing
into strips. Fleming turned over IN his
endeayor to get upon his feet or away from
the bear, when the animal caught him be-
tween tho shoulders with its claws and
stripped the clothing from his collar to lis
waist. leaving half . dozen rips down his
back half an inch or more deep. from his
collar-bone TO his hips. Fortunately for
Fleming. his faithful dogs arrived upon the
scene BY this time and distracted the bears
attention long enough for Fleming to crawl
to bis gun. level it behind the bears shouI-
der and shoot him through tho heart The
bear weighed $50 pounds.
The Lightning Calculator.
Reuben Fields. 8 most extraordinary In
dIyidual. has returned TO his home near this
place, after an abseEce of some years IN the